Reading and Writing 4 Q: Skills for Success

Unit 1 Student Book Answer Key Second Edition

The Q Classroom k. adversity l. pursue

Activity A., p. 2 Activity D., p. 9
Answers will vary. Possible answers: 1. Answers will vary. Sample answers: Role
1. We like to know what other people have models are important to everyone.
done. 2. The first paragraph and the last paragraph.
2. I admire my mother. She is kind and wise. Activity E., p. 9
3. The firefighters are admirable because they a. 4 b. 5 c. 1 d.3 e. 2
are putting themselves in danger in order to Activity F., pp. 9–10
protect other people. Answers will vary. Possible answers:
Activity B., p. 3 1. parents, other family members, teachers,
Answers will vary. Possible answers: community leaders
1. Marcus: Firefighters go into burning 2. They can help us aspire to the same
buildings to save people and soldiers risk their profession.
lives to defend their country 3. He/she can help us learn how to deal with
the problems that arise from the mistakes.
Sophie: Regular people like the man who
4. Role models might help when we are dealing
helped people during a storm and surgeon who with stress, illness or other misfortunes.
saved her father Activity G., p. 10
2. People who stand up for others; fight 1. True. (paragraph 2)
injustice; give up their time their money their 2. False. A parent is usually our first role model.
personal happiness to help others (paragraph 3)
Self-sacrifice; do something that others are 3. True. (paragraph 5)
4. True. (paragraph 6)
afraid to do; example – surgeon who saved her
5. False. A role model sometimes makes
father mistakes. (paragraph 7)
6. False. We need role models in many different
READING 1 situations. (Answers may vary, but for example,
READING SKILL paragraph 6)
Activity A., p. 5 7. False. Role models are all around us.
Answers will vary. Possible answers: (paragraph 10)
Why we need a role model/What a role model 8. True. (paragraph 5)
is/who a role model is/what role models Activity H., p. 11
do/what happens when things go wrong 2-3 Answers will vary. Sample answers:
Activity B., p. 5 Other family members: how to manage our
1.  the qualities of role models daily lives/how to show qualities we admire
2. what people may be role models A young child: how to continue in our struggles
3. how role models can inspire us Lawyers/doctors: inspire others to pursue the
4. how role models learn from mistakes same professions; how to become good leaders
and members of society
WORK WITH THE READING Teachers/community leaders: how to deal with
Activity B., pp. 8–9 problems
a. acknowledged for b. resolve
c. inherent d. aspires to
e. constrained f. version
g. achievement h. confront
i. embody j. inclined

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WRITE WHAT YOU THINK 5. F; Mafuza Folad works in an office above a

Activity A., p. 11 cookie shop.; Paragraph 23
Answers will vary. Sample answers: 6. F; Sharma’s best memories of her journey are
1. Yes, they do, because they are good at of the people she met around the world.;
sports, and they inspire other people to play Paragraph 19
sports. Activity F., p. 18
2. I am a role model for my younger brother. Maria do Socorro Melo Brandao/Brazil/ works
3. I would like people to say that I am a good with local job-seekers and offers extracurricular
person. I can be kind to other people and help activities to children and teens.
them when I am able. Sonja Kruse /South Africa/ proved that Ubuntu
is alive and well.
READING 2 Yamam Nabeel/ England/Iraq/ Created soccer-
PREVIEW THE READING based education and development programs in
Activity A., p. 12 Iraq, Sudan, England, and Ghana to teach
Answers will vary. people of different social, religious, and ethnic
backgrounds to work as a team.
WORK WITH THE READING Mahfuza Folad/Afghanistan/ director of Justice
Activity B., pp. 15–16 for All Organisation, which offers free advice to
1. c. 2. a. 3. b. 4. b. Afghan women and works for women’s and
5. b. 6. a. 7. c. 8. a. children’s rights.
9. c. 10. c. 11. b. 12. a. Dr. Jo and Lyn Lusi/Congo/ co-founded HEAL
Activity D., p. 17 Africa, which provides medical and social care
1. The person had to be changing the future of for women in Congo, and provides community-
their country in order to be considered a hero. based initiatives such as safe houses and
2. Answers will vary. Possible answers: remote clinics, microlending schemes, and law-
Sharma has now seen many countries and met training programs. 

many people. Felicite Rwemalika /Rwanda/ started Rwanda’s
Sharma has strengthened her resolve. first women’s sports federation in 2001 to give
3. Maria do Socorro Melo Brandão is a hero Hutu and Tutsi girls a chance to find
because she provides counseling to slum reconciliation in post-conflict Rwanda. 

residents and is a huge help to her community.
4. Answers will vary. Sample answer: WRITE WHAT YOU THINK
Dr. Jo and Lyn Lusi provide the most help Activity A., p. 19
because they provide tools for communities to Answers will vary. Possible answers:
succeed independently. 1. Yes, I volunteered to help organize the books
5. Tithiya Sharma plans to work for a women’s at my local library.
rights organization after her journey. 2. I think police officers are seen as admirable
Activity E., p. 17 because they help to keep us safe and enforce
1. F; Sharma has paid for most of her journey by the laws. Also, teachers are viewed as
herself.; Paragraph 15 admirable for their work with children.
2. T; Paragraph 7, 16 3. I could help my community by donating more
3. F; Brandão provides counseling to slum of my time and resources to people who are
residents in the City of God favela.; Paragraph struggling.
12 Activity B., p. 20
4. T; Paragraph 14 Answers will vary. Possible answers:

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1. I think that the president is a role model. He Answers will vary.

worked hard and helped a lot of people before Activity C., p. 25
he became who he is today. a. 2 b. 4 c. 1 d. 3 e.8 f.6 g. 7 h. 5
2. I would want to be publicly acknowledged so Activity D., pp. 25–26
that I could inspire other people to also help 1. Answers will vary.
their communities. / I would not want to be 2. b
publicly acknowledged. I wouldn’t like all the 3. Summarizing the main idea and/or the main
attention. points.

VOCABULARY SKILL GRAMMAR SKILL

Activity A., p. 20 Activity A., p. 27
syllable division, pronunciation, part of speech, 1. person who makes his or her community a
example sentence, synonyms, common better place
collocations 2. things that they do
Activity B., pp. 21–22 3. novel that changed his life forever
confront 4. merchant who insisted that his son have an
1. 5 education
2. Face up to 5. children who have no access to television
3. Be confronted with something 6. group which is trying to clean up the city
inherent
7. trash Lisa’s group collects
4. adjective, adverb
Activity B., p. 27
5. intrinsic
1. We all aspire to do something that other
6. in/her/ent
people will respect.
constrain
2. Role models may inspire us to help people
7. passive
who/that cannot help themselves.
8. 3
3. Role models have qualities which/that we
9. to/from
would like to have.
achievement
4. To me, a person who/that inspires others to
10. a/chieve/ment
do good deeds is a role model.
11. 2
5. Reading novels gives students something
12. sense of achievement
which/that they cannot get in textbooks.
6. Caring for the environment is something
WRITING SKILL
which/that we can all do.
Activity A., p. 24
7. Someone who/that donates money to charity
1. Are fame and fortune in your future? Do you
is a generous person.
dream of becoming a billionaire or a famous
Activity C., p. 28
actor?
Sentences 1, 3, 5, and 6
2. We all want to succeed, and identifying what
qualities make someone successful can help us
to achieve that goal.
3. Successful people share three common
qualities that allow them to stand out.
4. They also work longer hours.
5. First, Second, For example, Finally
6. c
Activity B., pp. 24–25

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